About the Authors

Arpita Konar

Contributed equally to this work with: Arpita Konar, Navjot Shah

Affiliation Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Laboratory, Department of Zoology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

Navjot Shah

Contributed equally to this work with: Arpita Konar, Navjot Shah

Affiliation National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Rumani Singh

Affiliation National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Nishant Saxena

Affiliation National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Sunil C. Kaul

Affiliation National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Renu Wadhwa

renu-wadhwa@aist.go.jp (RW); mkt_bhu@yahoo.com (MKT)

Affiliation National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Mahendra K. Thakur

renu-wadhwa@aist.go.jp (RW); mkt_bhu@yahoo.com (MKT)

Affiliation Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Laboratory, Department of Zoology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AK N. Shah RW MKT. Performed the experiments: AK N. Shah RS N. Saxena. Analyzed the data: AK N. Shah SCK RW MKT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SCK RW MKT. Wrote the paper: AK SCK RW MKT.